cat blues

For Osamu Dazai, one of the best things about Yukichi's return is that he can finally get rid of the sad state of not knowing the weather the next day.

Although most of the time last week was continuous, when Yuji Maomao and the others came back, the time suddenly jumped three times. The spring breeze made him stuff the bedding back into the cabinet overnight.

And after the big cat Yukichi came back, he could eat delicious food and snacks again, and live a life of a useless person who can do everything lying down except for commissions (!?).

There is no way, all of this has to be abducted. Mr. Ji is too capable.

But before Osamu Dazai finished the week, a news that horrified him appeared. The conscientious editor appeared in the Armed Detective Agency.

Even if the time is messed up like this, the editor of Yanbo Bookstore can still receive the manuscript on time!

Did you make a mistake!

Obviously, the dates are all messed up, and the 3rd is not the time to accept manuscripts. Why, Editor Mizushima, can come to your door to accept manuscripts on time and on time!And why, Mr. Ranpo, you actually wrote the manuscript in another world!This unscientific!

Dazai Osamu, who originally thought it was impossible for an editor to come to his door on April 4rd, recalled the words of Oda Sakunosuke urging him to quickly type words two days ago. At that time, he didn't take it to heart at all. He thought The time is so chaotic, where will the editor come to accept the manuscript?He had a burst of inspiration in April, which was the normal time before, and he wrote a full four months of manuscripts very normally.

So... four months have passed in such a mess?Edit Mizushima How do you calculate the time?

Now Osamu Dazai really wants to get rid of the golden cicada with one hand, but next to him is Oda Sakunosuke who looks at him disapprovingly, and not far away is Nakahara Chuya who is eyeing him covetously—the book that is the dispute between the two of them because they have gone too far Confiscated by the big cat Yuji, Zhongyuan Zhongye has been watching him for a long time, always thinking of stabbing him in the back.

So, seeing the besieged on all sides, Osamu Dazai could only finish the draft honestly with a bitter face under the smiling gaze of Editor Mizushima, but it was misunderstood by the client who came to entrust him.

"Your company's regulations are really strict, and every report is written without slack." The client said in admiration.

Kunikida Doppo really wanted to tell the truth and told the client that this was not the case at all, but he really couldn't say it out. This is a rare thing that made Osamu Dazai stay in front of the client who came for the first time. What an impressive situation!

Kunikida Doppo brought the client to the sofa where the guests were sitting, "May I ask if there is anything you would like to entrust to our company?"

"Ah, yes." The client quickly took out his business card and handed it over, "Hello, I am..."

Before the client could finish speaking, the door on the other side was suddenly opened, and the secretary, Ms. Kirako Haruno, had already rushed out of the room inside, and handed a document to Edogawa Ranpo's In front of him, "Mr. Ranpo, there is an urgent request from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department."

Edogawa, who was sitting at his seat playing games, was taken aback for a while, and then saw the copy of the photo handed over by the other party. He put down the game console in his hand, and showed some interest on his face, " This is quite interesting, reply to the Metropolitan Police Department, I will take this case."

After speaking, he took a lot of documents in his hand and ran towards the president's office.

The client was a little emotional: "It is indeed a well-known armed detective agency in Japan, and even has commissions from the Metropolitan Police Department."

"Where, you're overrated." Kunikida Doppo pushed the glasses on his face, "Please explain the content of your commission first."

Kunikida Doppo’s client’s request is a search request. This type of request is not troublesome. You just need to spend some time looking for it carefully. Anyway, there are no requests suitable for children recently. This entrustment will then be given to A Dun and the others to practice.

And after sending the client away, the manuscript in Dazai Osamu's hand was almost finished. He showed a dying expression, and handed the manuscript in his hand to the editor who had been standing behind him.

"Oh, Mr. Dazai, you have worked so hard. I will take the manuscript back first. If there is anything that needs to be revised, I will contact the teacher at that time." Editor Mizushima finished speaking, took the manuscript and left quickly. Only Osamu Dazai was left lying motionless on the table as if he had been squeezed dry.

After a while, Edogawa Ranpo ran out happily, "Kunikida, don't worry about that, let's go to Sapporo together."

"Mr. Ranpo, what did you say?" Kunikida Doppo was stunned, and couldn't help asking.

"Didn't we only go to Hakodate when we went to Hokkaido before? This time, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department gave us tickets, so we can go to Sapporo and stay there for one night before coming back." Edogawa Ranpo was happy He laughed loudly, "It just so happens that the weather is going to be cold, so we can go over there and have fun."

Osamu Dazai couldn't help looking sideways at the bright spring scenery around him, he didn't know how to complain about the phrase "the weather is going to be cold", but everyone around him took it for granted, which made him not even interested in complaining up.

"Ah yes, but why did the Metropolitan Police Department..." Kunikida Doppo looked at his famous detective with some doubts, "Why did you suddenly send us to Sapporo?"

"Because the Metropolitan Police Department received this." Ranpo Edogawa happily held up the entrustment letter in his hand to show them, and saw a photocopied color picture under the entrustment letter. It was a photocopy of a puppet with all its limbs broken, which looked extremely weird.

There is also an exquisite note card in front of the puppet, which reads "Three days later, I will plant a bomb on the train to Sapporo, puppeteer from hell".

"Is this a provocation to the police?" Kunikida Doppo frowned and carefully looked at the letter, which was obviously a crime notice, and made such a judgment.

"Yes..." Edogawa Ranpo nodded, "But there is only the most famous train from Tokyo to Sapporo. To ensure that there is no accident on that train, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, or JR East, It will absolutely not be allowed.”

"So for this investigation, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department invited me to help, and JR East paid for it, so we can go to Sapporo on the Big Dipper!" Edogawa Ranpo said happily, "I want to live with the president in a super famous luxury hotel." As for the suite, you probably can only live in a standard double room."

This is also very good.

"I still won't go." Kunikida Doppo frowned, "There are other commissions in the club, you go."

"I'm going!" Osamu Dazai raised his hand decisively, indicating that he wanted to go to Kangkang. How could such an interesting thing be missed?

Kunikida Doppo's forehead was bulging with veins, but he soon realized that three days later would be a rest day, and Osamu Dazai didn't need to be on duty, so just go.

"Oda, let's go, I'll forget it. Mr. Ranpo and Mr. Yukichi brought me back a lot of classic games before, and I haven't played enough." Nakahara Chuya thought for a while and said, "And with Ms. Xie Ye can also take Xiao Yin with her, the previous trips were only with Ms. Xie Ye, but now at least there are enough people in the club, so it's good to go out to play once in a while."

Hearing this tone, Nakahara Chuya made it clear that he regarded that so-called "hell's puppet master" as a slut, and he looked very dismissive, and in the end, if it is necessary to dismantle the bomb, who is better than Oda Sakunosuke? Handy?

"Is Mr. Yukichi going?" Oda Sakunosuke who was at the side suddenly couldn't help asking.

"Mr. Yukichi should not go..." Yosano Akiko couldn't help but said, "Don't you think that if you add Mr. Yukichi, your staffing will be a bit dangerous?"

Dazai Osamu thought about it again, it seems that it is true, if the big cat Yukichi also joins in, there will always be a kind of situation that will turn into the previous situation if you are not careful, everyone sits in the car and crosses. After all, this group of Except for the two girls, all of them have traveled through time and space with Yuji the big cat!

When Yukichi the cat came up with afternoon tea, he saw a very strange atmosphere in the office. Seeing Yukichi the cat came in, the group immediately started to change the topic as if they had agreed, Oda Sakunosuke He was the first to ask, "Mr. Ranpo, what do you think this hellish puppet master really means?"

"Who knows, it won't be someone like Teiji Moritani." Edogawa Ranpo said very firmly.

On the third day, the time turned to November 11 in an instant. At 18 pm, the departure station of the Hokutoshi train in Ueno, Tokyo began to check tickets on time.

After Edogawa ran on the train happily, he immediately found the luxurious suite he wanted. The luxurious suite with classic decoration was equipped with all kinds of daily necessities. He happily ran into the carriage and sat down on his buttocks On the bed, "Ahaha, President, this one is so soft."

Fukuzawa Yukichi put his luggage away with his own, and then carefully looked at this classic room, with classic brown wooden furniture, and a sofa chair behind a writing desk. He took out a few documents from his briefcase and looked at them. He would agree to come with Ranpo, not only for fun, but also because he really had something to deal with in Sapporo. He disappeared with Ranpo before, and the backlog After a lot of work, I went to Sapporo this time, just to get rid of some of the original things.

"Hey, it's so boring." Seeing that the president of his family was so disrespectful, he started to work after getting in the car, Edogawa Ranpo immediately lay down a little bored, but after looking at the time, he became happy again, "President , it's time for dinner later, let's go to the dining car to have dinner together!"

"Okay..." Fukuzawa Yukichi nodded.

The train started with the sound of the classic whistle, and the express train sped forward.

"Wow, Odasaku, the ordinary double room feels so simple." Osamu Dazai couldn't help complaining.

"Probably like this?" Oda Sakunosuke looked at the room similar to the double room in the hotel, and looked at the man in front of him with some puzzlement.

"Pfft..." Osamu Dazai couldn't help but burst out laughing, "Okay, okay, I'm just complaining casually, don't pay attention to me, by the way, Oda, we will go to each section later. Take a look at the trains, maybe we can search for the bomb that the hell puppet master planted in advance."

"Dazai, you are right." Oda Sakunosuke nodded, and then said: "Dinner is at eight o'clock in the evening, and later we can ask Xiano and Xiaoyin to go to the dining car for dinner."

"Okay, by the way, what did you order, Odasaku?" Osamu Dazai asked curiously, "I remember that spicy curry is not served on this train, right?"

Speaking of this, Oda Sakunosuke became a little depressed. Indeed, as Dazai said, spicy curry is not served on this train, and dinner and breakfast on the train must be ordered in advance. He looked for After a long time, I didn't even find a curry, only French cuisine, kaiseki cuisine and other dishes with small portions and very fine workmanship.

But if you think about it carefully, it is a closed compartment after all, so it is unlikely to provide particularly strong-smelling dishes.

Oda Sakunosuke sighed, "I chose Japanese-style kaiseki cuisine."

"Me too..." Osamu Dazai said with a smile, he knew that the other party would definitely choose this, after all, French food is expensive and not affordable, it is better to eat kaiseki cuisine.

There is really nothing to stay in the ordinary double room. Osamu Dazai couldn't sit still after sitting for a while, so he took Oda Sakunosuke to go out, and by the way called Yosano Akiko and Akutagawa Yin on the other side, and called to find out In the name of no dangerous goods in the car, we went to the lounge to see the scenery together.

The Big Dipper has 12 cars in total, except that No. 7 is a dining car and No. 12 is a cargo car for storing luggage. Each car has a bedroom, and the most luxurious one is the sa1 that Edogawa Ranpo and the others live in. The deluxe suite is in the same carriage as the B2 type double room where Dazai and the others lived.

When Osamu Dazai passed their room, he also knocked on the door and asked Ranbu if he wanted to go and see it together. As expected, he was rejected by the famous detective. After all, the luxury suite has quite huge glass windows and can enjoy the scenery along the road. .

No detective was called out, and Osamu Dazai was not in a hurry. They were all sure that there would not be a large-yield bomb in the car. I am afraid that the real intention of the threatening letter was to announce that the puppeteer from hell was about to Means to kill a person in a car.

There was no one else in the rest area except for a well-dressed lady with a small gauze hat on her head. The lady got up from her seat and left after seeing the four people coming here who were obviously together. go.

Osamu Dazai glanced at the other party, and after confirming that the opposite party was an ordinary person, he didn't bother to dig into the other party's identity, so he sat down on the soft sofa, took out his mobile phone and started playing, looking like a useless person who couldn't do without his mobile phone.

Yosano Akiko and Akutagawa Gin whispered about the girls.

As a result, only Oda Sakunosuke was honestly admiring the scenery along the way, and when he saw beautiful things, he couldn't help but take out his mobile phone, and slowly recorded his feelings at that moment on a sticky note.

Soon, it was time for dinner on the Big Dipper, and Yosano Akiko went to call the two who were still nestled in the room, and then went to the dining car together.

As soon as they entered the dining car area, they heard tourists not far away saying excitedly: "Look, look, it's a fantasy magic troupe!"

"I've seen their performance, it seems that they will also perform in Sapporo this time, super cky!"

"The deputy head is so handsome!"

Osamu Dazai looked curiously, and saw two people dressed as "magicians" greeting other tourists in the dining car, one of them was probably the deputy head of the group that the tourists said. The voice said, "Tomorrow morning, we will present you with a somewhat special surprise magic, please look forward to it!"

After they finished speaking, they walked away through the dining car.

"Tch, you bumbling guy." Fukuzawa Yukichi and the others just sat down when they heard a man with a mustache on another table not far away say this.

"Oh, it turns out to be the famous detective Mori Kogoro." Osamu Dazai couldn't help showing a narrow smile.

"I'm the famous detective, not that weird mustache man." Edogawa glanced at Mori Kogoro in a flurry. That's what he said to Fukuzawa Yukichi beside him in a more coquettish tone.

Fukuzawa Yukichi nodded without making a sound, his hands were folded in his sleeves, and even if he came out to eat, he still had his own Taidao pinned to his waist.

After Mori Kogoro finished talking, the girl at their table with a slightly strange bang protruding from her forehead couldn't help persuading her father.

Coincidentally, the flight attendants also brought up meals. Most of the people seemed to have ordered French cuisine. Only a small number of traditional people chose Japanese-style kaiseki cuisine. Yosano Akiko and Xiaoyin chose French cuisine.

However, whether it is French cuisine or kaiseki cuisine, there is a characteristic, that is, the serving order is strictly followed, that is to say, they serve the dishes very slowly, and it takes a long time to finish a meal.

Drinks were served after dinner, and everyone chose tea. They were not interested in juice coffee or anything like that.

Just as they were enjoying the aftertaste of the meal, a man on the side began to scold the people who came with him loudly, "Didn't I tell you to book the most luxurious private room? What's the point of living here now?" What!"

The person standing opposite him said with some embarrassment: "I'm sorry, boss, but you just said you wanted to take this Big Dipper a week ago. This is a very popular train after all, and the luxury private rooms have already been booked. Can we It’s good luck to book a private room for enough people.”

"Tsk, let me live in a private room of the same level as you, my wife is a little ashamed to see people, she would rather hide in the private room and not come out." The boss continued to speak rudely.

Seeing them talking so loudly in the dining car, the surrounding guests also looked in their direction strangely.

Osamu Dazai took a glance and recognized the two people over there. The one who trained was Keitaro Izumo, the owner of a jewelry store in Tokyo. staff.Osamu Dazai would know the two of them because a somewhat inexplicable case happened in Tokyo a week ago. A wanted criminal named Yasuji Asama robbed a jewelry store. Izumo Kaitaro drove them out, and when he left, he said something like "This is different from what you said", and then disappeared in front of everyone.

This matter was also moved to the news media, and Keitaro Izumo was praised by many people a few days ago.

Because of this news, Osamu Dazai wrote down both of these two people. He has no interest in a robbery that happened in Tokyo and has not yet been attempted, and this kind of thing can be known from the last sentence of the robber. ?Saying something like that in a jewelry store is clearly telling others that he still has accomplices?

Moreover, the wanted criminal named Anji Asama is also a very strange person. According to the data from the police, Anji Asama started robbery ten years ago, and he committed a crime almost every two or three years after that. In the past, he committed crimes alone. Naturally, in this operation, the police did not consider that he might have an accomplice.

However, Yasuji Asama's case was not entrusted to the detective agency, so Osamu Dazai had no interest in this wanted criminal. In addition, they had another incident to deal with. How could they have so much time to catch a jewelry robber?

"It's over, it's over, let's start work." Osamu Dazai stretched and stood up from his seat after speaking.

Oda Sakunosuke on the side also nodded with Asafukuzawa Yukichi and the others, and walked towards the other end of the dining car. They needed to check whether there were bombs here, after all, this was the job they received.

But both of them knew that the chance of success in the investigation was really low. This was a sleeping train, and there were separate private rooms. Even if they had detective certificates, it was impossible for them to go in and check every private room.

"Let's go and have a look too." Yosano Akiko stood up with Akutagawa Gin and walked towards the other side of the dining car.

When they got up one after another, Mori Kogoro who was not too far behind them had already become very familiar with the jewelry store owner, and when others heard that it turned out to be the famous Mori Kogoro , and some people offered to ask for a group photo.

Edogawa Conan smiled awkwardly, then he suddenly turned his head as if realizing something, just passing by two beautiful ladies, only to see at the other end of the dining car, a woman in a pale feathered dress. Ori, the silver-haired man with a straight figure just left, but what surprised Edogawa Conan was something pinned to his waist. It seemed to be a Japanese sword, right?

The flight attendants who checked the tickets could actually let such a person with dangerous goods get on the bus?

Edogawa Conan said "Sister Xiaolan, I'm going to the bathroom" and rushed up to chase after them, but when he ran to the other side and opened the door, he found that the two had long since disappeared.